Everyday Poetics - Logic, Love, and Ethics (Paperback)

Locating poetry in a philosophy of the everyday, Brett Bourbon continues a tradition of attention to logic in everyday utterances through Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Cavell, arguing that poems are events of form, not just collections of words, which shape everyone’s lives. Poems taught in class are formalizations of the everyday poems we live amidst, albeit unknowingly. Bourbon resurrects these poems to construct an anthropology of form that centers everyday poems as events or interruptions within our lives. Expanding our understanding of what a poem is, this book argues that poems be understood as events of form that may depend on words but are not fundamentally constituted by them. This line of thought delves into a poem’s linguistic particularity, to ask what a poem is and how we know. By reclaiming arenas previously ceded to essayists and literary writers, Bourbon reveals the care and attention necessary to uncovering the intimate relationship between poems, life, reading and living. A philosophical meditation on the nature of poetry, but also on the meaning of love and the claim of words upon us, Everyday Poetics situates the importance of everyday poems as events in our lives.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Brett Bourbon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-26550-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-350-26550-0
Barcode:	9781350265509

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